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10 pounds. The word "percent" (%) comes from the Latin "per centum", which means "for every hundred". 10 pounds is fifty percent of 20 pounds, because 10 is half of 20, and 50 is half of 100. Percentages make fractions easier to visualise, because they express proportions of 100, or to put that another way, the percentage is the number of hundredths the fraction is equivalent to. For example, which is bigger: three eights (3/8) or one third (1/3)? This is easier to see if we express each fraction as a percentage. 3/8 is 37.5 percent (100*3/8), and 1/3 is 33.3 percent (100*1/3). In other words, 3/8 is 37.5 hundredths, and 1/3 is 33.3 hundredths. From this, we can see easily that 3/8 is more than 1/3. For percentages of 20 pounds, each hundredth is worth 0.2 (20/100) pounds. So fifty percent (fifty hundredths) is worth 0.2 * 50 = 10 pounds. In this case the answer is very easy anyway, because fifty percent of something is always half of it, and half of 20 pounds is 10 pounds.
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What percent of fifty is one hundred and twenty?
One hundred and twenty is 240 per cent of 50.
What is 0.25 per cent of 15000?
0.25 per cent of 15000 is 37.5.
What is 5 cents of a million dollars?
5 per cent of one million dollars is fifty thousand dollars.
How do you work out twenty five percent of one hundred and twenty?
"25 per cent" of something means the amount you'd get if you divided the thing up into 100 equal parts and then took 25 of those parts. So you need to do 120 divided by 100, and then multiply the answer by 25.
What is a fraction in which the denominator is 100?
cent stand for hundred.So, this would "per cent."
What is twenty per cent of ten pounds?
2 pounds
What is fifty per cent of forty-five pounds and fifty pence?
50% = 50/100 = 1/2 45.50 x 1/2 = 22.75 Answer: twenty-two pounds seventy-five pence
What is twenty per cent of 7250 pounds?
1450
What percent of fifty is one hundred and twenty?
One hundred and twenty is 240 per cent of 50.
What is fifty per cent of one hundred and ten pounds?
£55
What is twenty per cent of thirty?
6
What is two per cent be on 15000 pounds for two years?
Two per cent of 15000 pounds = 300 pounds. There is no time frame for the two per cent so the rest of the question is impossible to answer.
What does 0.56 mean in words?
Fifty-six per cent.
What is 15 per cent of 125.00 pounds?
It is 18.75 pounds.
How do you write out .5 percent?
0.5 = 50% = 'fifty per-cent'
What is the approximate oxygen content of air?
twenty per cent
What is 1 per cent of 70000000 pounds sterling?
It is: 700,000 pounds
